Improvement in lanterns



No. 93,535. 'PATENTED AUG. 10, 1869.

-,J. HUGHES.

LANTERN.

JOHN HUGHES, OF-BUGHANAN,.PElilISYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 93,535, dated August 10, 1869.

lMPROVEMENT IN LANTERNS.

The schedulereferred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, J onn HUGHES, of Buchanan, in

the eounty of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Guard- Lanterns; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a: full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making'part ofthis specification, in which- Figure 1 is a'diametrical section througha lantern having my improvement-applied to it.

- Figure 2 is a perspectiveview, illustrating more clearly my improvement. 1

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

The object of my invention is to improve portable lanterns, which are adapted for receiving and h0lding :in place removable globes, by making a part of the base-ring of the guard-frame as the pintle or the hingeconnection-of this fr'ame to thebase of the lantern.

Also, by adapting a catch, to hold the base and ghardframe' in proper position, by arranging such catch so that it will .receive'and hold beneath it the base-ring oi said frame, thereby producing a removable globelantern at much less cost of labor and material-than hitherto, as will be hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my tion. a

' In the accompanying drawings- A represents the removable globe of the lantern,

invention, I will describe its construction and operawhich is constructed with circular contracted portions,

and annular external ribs 9 9', upon its extremities.

' B is the perforated top of the lantern, which has the upper ends of all the vertical wires E of the guard-' frame secured to it, by bending these ends inwardly and soldering them to the base-flange of this top 'or The upper end of tliis-rhase-section is constructed,

with an external annular flange, e, which is corrugated, to stifi'en it, and also to afi'orda depressed'seat for the rib or head at the npperterminus of the contracted port-ion g of the glass globe to rest in or upon.

To the circumference of this flange e the base-ring a of the guard-flame is connected bya strap, b, which is soldered or riveted to the flange, so as to form a hinge-connection of the guard-frame to the base of the lantern.

P The lower ends of the vertical wires 'E' are secured To hinge this ring properly to the flange'ait is necessary to bend the wire of the ring outwardly, and straighten that portion of it which is toform the pintle of the eye-piece l). This is shown clearly in fig. 2. I

Diametrically oppositethehinge-connection aspring I strip, G, is secured to the base 0, below flange e, and extended up and over this flange, so as to form a catch, with an outwardly-inclined finger-piece, G,

which catch will receive beneath it the ring a, and

firmly hold this ring and the flange 0 together, as shown in fig. 1. I

It will be seen, from the above description, that the glass globe A is held in place between the cap B and base 0, without cement, consequently it can be removed at pleasure, for cleaning it, or for substituting. a good globe for a broken one; also, that the base-ring a of the guard-frame, serves as the pintle for thehinge-' connection ofthis' ring with the base 0; also, that the base-ring a, s erves,'in conjunction with a spring-- catch, asa means for securing the hinged sections of the lantern in the condition represented in fig. 1.

These features, all combined in the manner shown and described, admit of lanterns being made strong and substantial, and at the same time their cost, as compared with lanterns hitherto made, is greatly diminished. v

I am aware of the lanterns patented by John H. Ir-

win, September 1-1, 1866, and by Charles F. Moeller,

August 15 1866. '-I also am aware of the rejected application'of George Peugeot, filed in 1866.

' In all of these lanternsthc spring-fastening is constructed and applied in a more costly and inconvenient way than in my lantern, and, in the latter two, the globe cannot .tum over to one side any further-than the quarter of a circle, and hence there is great inconvenience in the handling of these lanterns when the globeis. thrown over, it being necessary to employ both hands for the purpose. I

' In view of the great convenience of my external springscatch, and the cheapness with which my :lantern is constructed, I believe I have made a great improvement, although the general operation and design may besomewhat similar to thelanterns herein referredto.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure outward pressure of the base-ring upon the spring support said ring at all points, and also the portion g of' catch will force said catch out of the way, and said the glass globe, and with the external sprlngwateh G ring will fall below the-hook of the catch, and be G, all arranged, constructed, and operated in themancaught and retained thereby in a firm manner, all as ner herein described and shown.

set forth. JOHN HUGHES.

2. The combination of the base-ring a, which is \Vitnesses: straightened at the point where it is hinged to the A. B. STEVENSON,

flange e, with the said flange, which is constructed to A. PATTERSON. 

